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BY S. B. CRAFTON. SMDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1852. VOL. VI--I0. 34. THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN IS PUBLISHED EVER Y TUESDA Y MORNING, TERMS * If paid strictly in advance, per year, $1 50 If not paid at the lime of subscribing, $2 00 These terms will be strictly adhered TO* WITHOUT RESPECT TO PERSONS, AND ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS WItL BE REQUIRED TO BE SET TLED UP EVERY YEAR. Advertise yients not exceeding twel /e lines, will be inserted at o?ie dollar for the first in sertion, arid fifty cents for each continuance. Advertisements not having the number of in sertions specified, will he published until for bid. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Administrators and Guardians, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of Personal Property must be ad vertised in like manner at least ten days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an es tate ir ust be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of ordinary for leave to sell Land and Vegroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for letters of administration must 1 be published thirty days—for dismission from idmhustratiqnjj monthly for six months— for dis mission froi%Guardianship, forty days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—for estab lishing lost papers, for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been giv en by the deceased, the full space of 3 months. Publications will always be continued ac cording to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. All letters on business must be vost-paid POETRY. [from the weekly universe.] “Judge not lest Ye be Judged.’’ BY TOM FRANK. Judge not!—though clouds of seeming guilt may dim thy brother’s fame, For fate may throw suspicion’s shade upon the brightest name ; Thou ean’st not tell what hidden chain of cir cumstances m-y Have wrought the sad result that takes an honest name away. Ju<Jge not! Judge not!—the vilest criminal may rightfully demand A chance to clear himself, before a jury of his land, And surely one who ne’er was known to break his plighted word, Should not be hastily condemned to obloquy, unheard. Judge not! Judge not!—thou can’st not tell how soon the the look of bitter scorn May rest on thee, though pure thy heart as dew-drops in the morn. Thou dost not k now what freak of fate may place upon thy brow A cloud of shame to kill the joy that rests up on it now. Judge not! Judge not!—but rather in thy heart let gentle pity dwell— Man’s judgment err, but there is One who “doeth all things well.” Ever, throughout the voyage of lift. this pre cept keep in view— “Do unto others as thou would’st that they should do unto you.” Judge not! Judge not!—for one unjust reproach an hon est heart can feel As keenly as the deadly stab made by the pointed steel. The worm will kill the sturdy oak, (though slowly it may die,) As surely as the lightening stroke swift rush ing from the sky. Judge not! MISCELLANEO US. hick Daily’s Stump Speech. Fellow Citizens :—This are the day for the popperlation ofBoonville like a bob tailed pullet on a rickety hen roost, to be looken’ up. A crisis have arriv—and some thing’s busted! Where are we. Here I is and I’d stand here and expirate from now till the day of synagogues if you’d whoop Dally. Feller Citizens—Jerusalem’s to pay, and we haint got no pitch hot. Our hyperboli cal and majestic canal boat, of creation has unshipped her rudder, and the captain’s broke his neck, and the cook has div to the depths of the ‘vasty deep’ in search of di icons! Our wigwam is torn to pieces like a shirt on a brush fence, and these latitudes is vanishing’ in a blue flame ! Are such thing to be did ? I ask you in the name of the American Eagle, who whipped the shaggy headed lion of Great Britain, and now sits.a roostin’ on the magnetic tele graph, if such doins is to be conglomerated; 1 regcat it to you in the name of that pea cock of liberty when he is flawin’ o’er the cloud capped summits of the Rocky Moun tains, if we’s agoin to be extemporaneously biogyogged in this fashion ? “Oh, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance !” as Shakespear says: Shall we be bamboo- zlefied with such unmittigated outdacious- nsss ? Methinks I hear you yelp—‘no-sir- ee !’ Then ’lect me to Congress and there will be no revolution. Feller citizens—If I was standing in the adamantime throne of Jubiter, and light- nins was a clashin’ around me, I’d continue to spout! I’m full of bifin’ lather of Mount Etny. and I won’t be queched! I’ve sprung a leak, and I tnust howl like a bear with a sore head. Flop together—jump into the ranks and hear me through. Feller citizens—You know me, and rip my lungs out with a nail grab if I wouldn’t slick to yer, like brick dust to a bar of soap. Where is my opponent ? No where. He ain’t a cat-b ; rd in a garret to me ! I was brought among you and he was in a school house, but he can’t get me with his highfal- lootin words. Hictum, strictum, albro, an- to, catnip, Brazil, Tegalo, and Baffid’s Bay! What do you think of that V ‘Go it porky—root hog or die!’ as Shakespeer said when Caeser stabbed him in the House of Representatives. Feller citizens—Elect me to Congress, and I’ll ’bolish mad dogs, musceeters and bad money. I’ll go in for tetotal annihila tion of niggers. camp-meetings a id jails. I’ll repudiate crows and dustily hen-hawks; I’ll have barn raisins every day (Sundays excepted) and licker enough to swim an ele phant. Yes, feller citizens, ’lect me to Congress and I shall be led to exclaim in the sublime and terrific language of Bonyparte, when preaching in the wilderness— ‘Richard’s himself again !” On, then onward to the polls; ‘‘gallop apace, fiery footed steed, and make the welkin ring with anti spasmodic yelk for Dally. I’m a comin.” Information about tlie Crops. Alabama.—The Greesboro Ala., Beacon of the 20th says it receives further com plaint of the spread of the boll worm, espe cially in the canebrake region, where the crops, in many cases, are represented as being half cut off. From the sandy lands the complaints are not so numerous. Tbe Livingston, Ala., Democrat regrets to learn that many of the planters in that neighborhood complain of the destructive rage of the boll worm, an express alarm for their crops. The good prospect some short time since of course but renders the injury the more observable. The Mobile Tribune of the 25th says : We saw yesterday a gentleman who has travelled extensively in Noxubee, Miss., and Pickens, Green and Sumter in this State. He tells us that the planters gen erally despair of making more than half a crop" of cotton. The worm was every where in those counties, and while the weed generally looked very well, there was a great defiency of bolls. Mississippi.—The Jackson Mississippian of the 27 th ult. says : “ We learn that in this and all the adjoining counties, the boll worm is playing sad havoc with the crops of Cotton; and besides the injury which it sustains from this cause, in many planta tions, the plant is usually large, and there is a great scarcity of blooms. Trie Union Beacon (Noxubee, Miss.) says The grain crops of every description have been secured, and both in quality and quantity, they must be looked back to in after times as making this the great grain year. The Cotton crop is afflicted with the worm, and is in a very unpromising con dition. The Beacon is assured that there will not be more than half a crop made within tbe county. Louisiana.—The Jackson (La.) Mirror of the 19th ult., says tk;t cotton picking in that vicinity has now fairly commenced, and the prospect is good for a large crop. May nothing blight that prospect. The Concordia Intelligencer of the 21st says that a few days since Mr. Henry P. Daniels, an enterprising planter of that parish, brought in four or five bales of new cotton all the way from the Tensas, and shipped them from Vidalia for New Or leans. The same paper learns from plan ters residing in Adam’s county, Miss.; that the cotton is opening very rapidly on the hills. Picking is said to be as good now as it usually a month later *in tbe season. This is the case also, in a great measure, with the river plantations in the lowlands. Further back m the swamp the crops are not quite so forward. The Chatahoula Advocate of the 19th ult., says that everybody in that section seems to be busy in picking cotton. A good deal ha'd already been picked, and the probability was that the first steamboat down Black River would find at least one hundred bales on the bank waiting for ship ment. The Plaquemine Sentinel says that the crops generally in that parish are in a more favorable condition than they have been known on for years. The season has been very propitious—neither dry nor wet soells for any length of time, 1 The Paulding, Miss., Clarion of the 14th mst., says the plentiful rains the past week i ‘i__ l — i. ABAna xwKl/iK Dave UtftJU a grtfUL iciicl^u ultc v/j_ro, were beginning to suffer severely from the drouo-ht. A better corn crop will be made in Mississippi than has been done for years and that articles will be excessively abun dant. The cotton crop will be more than an average one. Territory and Population.—The follow ing tabie in regard to area and population is not without interest: The Nations Acres. Population. The area ofU.S.is 2,081,759,000 23,267,498 Df China, 830,829,000 400,000,000 Of France, 130,391,000 40,000,000 3f England <te Wales 37,000,000 17,500,000 3 f Ireland, 20,400,000 8,000,000 Now, with such a comparison of territory and population, what ideas of national gran- leur expand within the mind! fggp There was a .nan so anxious to make a “noise in the world,” that he left orders when he died, to have his skm tanned and made into a drum. A Trtelisey Spirit. The persecuted spirit of King Alcohol, which so often disguises its votaries, is now perpetually condemned to disguise itself in those regions where the Maine law prevails. The papers bring us continual tidings of some new masking habit which it is obliged to assume, and from which it is no sooner routed than it flies to another still stranger and more Bizarre. Now it is molasses, now vinegar; it is milk, it is butter, it is lard it is honey, it is apple sauce, it is everything. It is put into all sorts of receptacles, and trav els by all sorts of conveyances. It is slung in bags on bent backs; it is wheeled along by porters, who call it baggage; it is rowed through the water by boats; it rides on horse back in two gallon valises; it is even carried in brass-nailed coffins, by solemn-visaged men; nay, more, it is said, in one instance, to have been hid in a cradle in a night-cap ped keg, and rocked gently to a soothing lullaby, while vigilant officers searched the house for its whereabout. Vigilant they were, too, for they found it eveu there, and waggishly exclaimed, as they lifted it out; “Dear little innocent—the very picture of its father!” . These stratagems remind us of one said to have been practised many years ago on the frontiers of France and Belgium, some what as follows. We do not pretend to be literal in our recollection, and may have slightly embelished the story. A gay carriage very frequently passed and re-passed the “lines,” as we Yankees say, being never more than glanced into by the officers of the Customs, for it evidently belonged to a man of wealth and conse quence, who was its only occupant. Its dri ver was in livery, and so was its large black footman, who stood very erect at bis post, and whose broad, shining face displayed a perpetual grin of delight. Cuffee, indeed, became a person very well known, and was often spoken of on the route which he trav ersed- He was also sometimes spoken to and bowed to, at turnpikes and other brief stopping places; but he was remarkable for never, ra the slightest degree, returning either bow or salutation, notwithstanding his extremely good-natured look. “Pretty stiff, for a nigger, isn’t he?” said one of the mobocracy one day when the usu ally swift carriage had become accidentally impeded by a crowd in tbe street, and was forced to travel very slowly. “I say, Cuffee, how do you do? A warm day, isn’t it?” The footman continued to grin, but said nothing. “Perhaps he don’t understand tbe lan guage,” said another, for the speakers were French; “try him in Dutch.” He was tried in Dutch with the same success. “Blast the blackamoor! he might at least make a bow, even if he is a Hottentot,” said the first speaker, raising his cane threaten ingly- “Give him a cut!” cried another. Down came the cane, and a sharp, ring ing sound was returned, which excited much astonishment. “Deuced queer hide that fellow must have,” said the cane-wielder, leaping to his side on the carriage, while a roar of laugh ter proceeded from the crowd. Whack ! whack ! whack ! fell the blows again, and this time on the shoulders of Cuffee, who, although clearly a man of met al, made no resistance. The carriage was stopped, and the voice less footman was assisted to alight, when, on examination, he proved to be a leaden im age, hollow as the wooden horse of Troy, and filled from his toes to the eyes with the choicest brandy. The carriage and horses were of course confiscated, together with Cuffee, who was bled very freely by the Custom House officials, in the attempt to as certain tbe exact quality of his contents, in order to make tlieir processes all correct. Interesting from Australia- -The tide of immigration from England to the Austral ian Colonies is said to be a thousand a day. Immigration was never so fashionable or so aristocratic. Men are abandoning positions once deemed advantageous and creditable, far above tbe average, and voluntarily re signed appointments into which at their low est grade they not long since thought them selves most fortunate to obtain admission. Among the very aristocracy of clerkhood, not far short one hundred resignations have been given in to the directors of the Bank of England by the employers of that vast establishment. Great mortality prevails at the gold diggings in Australia. The scarc ity of water has been dreadful. They have had to go miles to fetch it for drinking, and it has been scarcely possible to wash the gold. The gold is found mixed with-quartz, white or red. Prices remain extravagant ly hight. Six common second hand mahog any chairs lately sold for eighteen guineas. All clothing is dear. Shoes are 20 shillings sterling a pair. Dysentefy, rheumatism, and consumption abound. A young and pretty girl stepped into a store where a spruce young man who had long been enamored, but dared not speak; stood behind the counter selling dry goods. In order to remain as long as possible, she cheapened everything, and at last said: “I am cheating you.” “Oh; no,” said the youngster, “to me you are always fair.”: “Well,” whispered the lady, blushing as she laid an emphasis on the word, “I would not stay so long bargaining if you were not so dear.” ' jggT “This is hot work,” as the pig said when the butcher was scalding his carcass; [FROM THE WASHINGTON UNION.] Letter from Lieut. Drum, Uni ted States Army. The shameless charge of coYvaraice which has been preferred against Gen. Pierce by vile patisans of tbe Whig party, is receiving day by day that exposure and rebuke which its meanness and mendacity deserve Gallant officers and soldiers, both of regu lars and volunteers, who served with Gen. Pierce in Mexico, unite in repelling impu tations so injurious to the well earned rep utation of a broiher-in arms. The follow ing letter from Lieut. Drum, of the 4th Ar tillery, addressed to Hon. Charles Shealer, of PittsbHrg, will be read with great inter est. Fort Brady, Saut St. Marie, (Mich) ) July 20, 1852. j Dear Sir:—In reply to your interrogato ry respecting tbe absurd alegatiou that “Gen. Pierce managed to faiut at the com mencement of every battle’* during the cam paign in the valley of Mexico, 1 will give you the following detailed statement as an eye witness of most, if not all, Gen Pierce’s movements during those engagements. On tbe 18th of August, 1847, Gen. Pierce was directed to act with bis brigade as a supporting force to that portion of.Gen. Twiggs’s division ordered to attack in front the enemy’s position at Contreras. In complying with the instructions, he was exposed to a continued discharge of round shot and shells. The General was at that time mounted and riding along a ledge of pedrigal (volcanic rock.) After having advanced with bis force about half a mile, directly towards the enemy’s work, the fire from their battery became very se vere; the air being filled with missiles, his horse look fright and fell with him on the ledge, throwing the General some distance and injuring him very severely. The gen eral impression at the time with those who witnessed the accident was, that he was either killed or severely wounded. He was, I think, when the accident hap pened in advance of his brigade, and cer tainly displayed duriDg that engagement as much gallantry as any one whose actions J came under my observation. j Though seriously disabled, as was indeed evident from his physical appearance, he remained in the field that night, and insis ted upon joining the contest in tbe morning of the'20th, and although it was with diffi culty be could retain his seat on horseback yet "he led the command into the engage ment of Churubusco; while there, he was relieved iu command by Gen. Shields, in consequence of the injury received the pro ceeding day. From this injury Gen. Pierce did not re cover during his stay in Mexico; and it was I believe; the'cause of his return borne soon after tbe occupancy of tbe capitol Gen. Pierce’s conduct during his march from Vera Cruz to Puebla was certainly sufficient to shield him from so foul an ac cusation as the one above quoted. Within my own knowledge he was fre quently exposed to tbe enemy’s fire " T and upon every occasion conducted himself with that propriety that should characterise tbe conduct of every brave and true soldier. He has never presumed to be a military man, but those who witnessed his conduct j know that every order given him was not j only fully executed, but with a promptness ; and correct judgment that secured him the ! esteem and confidence of the most promi nent military men of the army. There was however, one great military virtue that General Pierce never failed to exercise. I allude sir, to his unceasing efforts to allevi ate the sufferings and necessary privations of the men under his command. It was with him a duty to contribute with kind words and attentions to ihe comfort of the sick and wounded soldiers, and from bis personal means secured them many neces saries of which they were destitute. In conclusion; I must say that amongst those who were more closely connected with General Pierce, and who were witnes ses of his acts, I have never heard the slight est intimation of a want of courage on his part; ana on the contrary, he was esteemed a brave good man, and officers and soldiers were most warmly attached to him. I am, sir, respectfully yours, RICHARD C. DRUM. Lieutenant 4th Artillery, U, S. A. Hon. Charles Shealer. Distressing.—The Galveston News, of the 10th, thus refers to almost distressing and melancholy event, which lately occur red in that city: “We have to record one of the most mel- «*va1wv1 CT 'ATTnnfo tknt Iuml opqi* kannonarl• in aiU-irvt y t7»cuw vuav imo vtoi *** this city. On Friday nighfcjast, Mrs. Ed monson, the wife of Dr. E. Edmonson, a dentist of this city, died in her bed, her husband being entirely unconscious of the dreadful calamity that had befallen him, until he awoke in the morning and beheld the lifeless corpse by his side ! Mrs. E. bad been afflicted with the toothache for some time, and had been accustomed to find re lief in the use of chloroform, administered by her husband. It is believed that she was. afflicted with pain in the night, and being unwilling to wake her husband, pro cured the chloroform and administered it herself in such excess as to cause her death. There is really no doubt such was the case.” “ ’Tis strange,” muttered a young man as he staggered home from a supper party, “how evil communications corrupt good manners. I’ve been sui rounded by tumb lers all the evening, and now I’m a tumbler Yellow Fever in Charleston. Our city has been filled with rumors t for the last two days of the prevalence in Char leston, of yellow fever in a maglignant form and according to the accounts, the mortali ty is already very great. We sincerely hope it may not be true, yet. it has reached us in so many and such reliable forms that we cannot doubt that the disease has made its appearance in that city. The papers, however, are perfectly mute on the subject, while tbe country is being filled by passengers and others with what we believe to be most exaggerated accounts. Under such circumstances we think the journals would be but serving the interests of the city by giving faithful daily reports of the progress of the disease. This, how ever, is a matter for the exercise of the dis cretion of the authorities, with which we have nothing to do.—Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel of Tuesday We have for several days past been in possession of tbe fact that there was ye! low fever in Charleston, but we have no mentioned it, lest an improper motive might be attributed to us. A resident of that city assured us last week that a young man an acquaintance of his, had died of it and^lhat as many as fifteen cases were re ported to have existed on Tuesday last. This may be an exaggeration, but that there have been a number of cases of yel low fever in Charleston, and that it is there at this time, information from various sour ces leaves us no room to doubt. The Cath olic Miscellany of Saturday, published there contains obituary notices, of five who died of yellow fever, and fobF who died of stran ger’s or country fever, which is understood to be the same thing—all within a week. It should be remembered that the Miscel lany publishes obituaries of Catholics only. —Sav. Rep. A Sad Story.—Miss Ida Williams, a beautiful and talented young English lady, 23 years of age, who was rescued from the steamboat Atlantic, has arrived at Detroit. The Advertiser, of that city, says:— “She had arrived in this country from England, and was travelling westward with a view to select a location for a future resi dence, in company with a twin-brother, a married sister, a brother-in-law, and two nieces, all of whom were lost. She states that the last recollection she has of any thing which took place on the Atlantic, she was standing in company with her friends on the deck, when a beam or piece of woo 1 fell and killed her brother, and bitting he. also in its fall, injured her back, when she fainted. She bad no conciousness of any thing which took place afterward, until she found herself on board the propeller, on her jvaytoErie, without clothing, except her night dress, without money, and without a friend on this side the broad Atlantic—her friends were all lost! Not knowing where to turn for succor, she took passage on board a Detroit boat, and reached this city, where her immediate wants were supplied, and where she has been kindly offered a home in the family of a highly respectable and hospitable resident of Detroit.” The Late Storm.—The Columbus En quirer of Tuesday says : “One of the heaviest rain storms that has been experienced about here lately took place on the 26th, by which all the streams near this place were so much swol len as to stop travelling for a day or so. The Chattahoochee river rose higher than it has been for several years, and we learn that the plantations below this place, lying near the river, have been almost wholly submerged, doing material injury to the growing crops thereon. The factories here were compelled to suspend operations, and the damage some of them may have sus tained, is yet not known correctly. “On the Muscogee Railroad, the cars went out on Sunday morning, and 19 miles below the city the conductor found a part of a bridge had been carried away by the rise of a creek. On returning with the train when within 7 mile of the town a part of the embankment was found mis sing, which had slid off with the track since the cars -had passed over. Every thing however, is righted at present, and the cars are rnnning as usual.” Soule and Pierce.—Mr. Soule, the dis tinguished Senator from Louisiana, in a pri vate letter to his partner, thus speaks of Gen. Pierce: “I have seen the man, and a man he is, of lofty mien, of winning manners, and easy and elegant speech, of great directness of purpose, of facile access, and yet dignified and imposing—-a man, I tel! you, who will grace the Presidential chair, add to the cred it of our party, and do honor to the nation. In him we may repose the most absolute and unreserved confidence. His mind is of the highest order. What stpkes in him most is the bold confidence with which he addresses himself to any subject-^-an uner ring revelation of conscious rectitude and of moral and mental strength.” Cure for Love.—Several years ago, when Mrs. Rogers, the actress, was young and handsome, Lord North, remarked for his handsome face, accosted her one night be hind the scenes, and asked her with a sigh —“What was a cure for love?” “Your Lordship,” responded she, “the best I know of in the world.” If you wish to. make your wife think of putting a sleeping draught in your coffee, come home some night ‘from the lodge’ with a female night-cap in your hat. Mexico and llie United States. Tehuantepec Affair.—Sir.. Mason, .from the Committee on Foreign Relations, in the United'Sfcates Senate,' to ' whi.cjh -b.ad been referred the correspondence between this governmentand that of Mexico, in re* lation to the right of way across the Isth mus of lehpan tepee, on Monday made a long report; concluding with the following resolutions, which were ordered to be prin ted : Jfe V Resolved, As the judgment of the Sen ate, that, in the present posture of the ques tion the grant of a right of way through the territory of Mexico at the Isthmus of Tehu antepec, conceded by that Republic to one of its its citizens, and now the property of citizens of the United States, as the same is presented by the correspondence and documents accompanying the message of the Presidentof the United States of the 27th July, 1852, it is not compatible with the dignity of this Government to prose cute the subject further by negotiation. Second: Should the Government of Mexico propose a renewal of such negotia tion, It should be acceded to only upon dis tinct propositions from Mexico, not incon sistent with the demands made by this Government in reference to said grant. Third : That the Government of the United States stands committed to all of its citizens to protect them in their rights a- broad, as well as at home, within the sphere of its jurisdiction; and should Mexico, within a reasonable time, to reconsider her position concerning said grant, it will then become the duty of this Government to re view all existing relations with that Repub lie, and to adopt such measures as will pre serve the honor of the country and the rights of.its citizens. A dancing master, on being cast away on a desolate island, lived six months with out any other food than which he derived from “cutting pigeon wings” and stewing them. Here’s a hint worth taking^ to sea. If learning to dance will prevent you from shuffling off this mortal coil, it is the duty of every man and woman to grow wise in cotillions. S. M. Hewlett.—The Newark N. J. Ea gle, of the £0th Aug., says the Temperance meeting in that city on the 19th, was one of the most numerous gatherings of the people that ever assembled together in that city. At least four thousand persons were present, a large majority of whom were at tracted together by tbe announcement, that Mr. Samuel M. Hewlett, formerly of that city, was to speak on the occasion. The performance of Mr. Hewlett is spoken of in very high terms of approbation. Death of John Doe and Richard Roe.—- By the London papers we learn that these distinguished persons who have lived so long (some 7G0 or 800 years) as to be con sidered immortal, and who were apparently the largest owners of real estate in Great Britain, will cease to exist on the 34th of October next; an act of recent session of parliament providing that instead of the present proceeding jn actions of ejectments (in which these worthies always took a conspicuous part) the writ shall be directed to the person in possession of the demand ed property, and in which the poetry shall be described with reasonable certainty.- A notion seller was offering a Yankee clock, finely varnished and colored, and with a looking glass in front, to certain lady not remarkable for personal beauty. “Why, it is beautiful,” said the vender. “Beautiful indeed ! a look at it almost frightens me,” said the lady. “Then, marm,” replied Jonathan, “I guess you’d better take one that aint got no looking-glass. The following pretty toast was given at the Fourth of July celebration at Lewiston, Maine. “Dowr East—-That mystical land where the sun is said to rise; the land of pretty girls; the land of pumpkin pies:—may the Fates protect it and shield it from all harm, and Uncle Sam ne’er forget the N. E. cor ner of his farm.” Considerate.—“John,” said a careful fath er, “don’t give cousin Simmons’ horses too many oats, you know they have hay.” “Yeth, thur,” said John, moving towards the barn. “And, hark ye John—don’t give them> too much hav; you know they have oats.” QO* Mr. Emerson, in one of his lectures, observed that in New England a man might one day be a tavern keeper and the next a judge. “A very natural transition,” whis pered a wag, “from the bar to the bench! ’ The story of a man who had a nose so large that he couldn’t blow it without the use of gun-powder,has turned out to be a hoax! ^ JBST’-The Chinese think that the soul of a poet passes into a grasshopper, because it sings till it starves. A Wellerism,—“I’ll take your part,” as the dog said when he robbed the cat of her portion of the dinner. “Though lost to sight, to dear,” as Jones said, when Brown and left him to pay his bill. Why is a pig’s tail like a Because it is flourished over